Funding problems hurt FL Innocence Commission

A push to keep innocent people out of Florida's prisons was hung up by lack of funding. A commission of criminal justice professionals from around the state spent two years developing a plan to prevent wrongful convictions. But those ideas may be too costly.

Free after 35-years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit, James Bain was cleared of raping a young boy in 2009.

DNA from the crime was on file-and it didn't match his.

"If it doesn't get funded, that's a great science to have, but if it doesn't get funded, then that defendant will not have the opportunity to be exonerated potentially with DNA evidence," said Charlotte County Sheriff Bill Cameron.